Word: barter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three chartered boats anchored in Vanikoro's lagoon and sped in inflatable outboards to the wreck site. In the afternoons, they returned laden with artifacts that included part of a shoe, Chinese ceramics, a dragoon's brass helmet and thousands of glass necklace beads probably intended as items of barter for Pacific tribal chieftains...
...based in Europe and aimed at European targets. Umbrella talks could treat those different weapons as parts of a single negotiating equation, together with emerging space-based weapons. The technical complexity of the talks would be increased, yet the comprehensive approach offers considerable advantages: negotiators would be able to barter the putative U.S. edge in space weaponry, for instance, directly with the Soviet surfeit in ICBM megatonnage...
...more an intellectual argument than over any significant date that has true importance to it," agrees Barter...
Collegiate was so eager to find out how old it is that Headmaster Richard Barter and Trustee William L. Frost '47 in 1974 sent head librarian David Mallison to Holland to research the school's background...
Such an appeal would also be risky. State House observers say, because a good number of the Republican representatives also support Keverian. It is also doubtful that the House Minority Leadership would barter Republican votes for much coveted committee chairmanships and risk what little political clout State House Republicans now have...